Deshaun Watson: 2026 Fantasy Football Stats
Deshaun Watson has played 4 of CLE's 4 games through Week 4, averaging 16.7 PPR points.
Box-score numbers, plus this week's projection where there is one: no draft read, no advice.
Not on the Week 5 injury report.
Deshaun Watson
QB · Cleveland Browns
This week · Week 5
Projected 18.2 half-PPR points in Week 5, with a likely range of 7.3 to 29.3.
at NYJ · Sun 1:00 PM ET
Forecast 18.2 Half-PPR points: the Vegas line adds 0.9, the matchup nothing. Show how it is built.
| Step | Points | Running total |
|---|---|---|
| Baseline: His role and efficiency over 4 games, at his usual line | 17.3 | 17.3 |
| Vegas: CLE implied 18.8 vs 17.7 in his games | +0.9 | 18.2 |
| Matchup: NYJ 12th toughest vs QB: already in the Vegas line | 0.0 | 18.2 |
| Availability: No designation, no teammate ruled out | 0.0 | 18.2 |
| Projection | 18.2 | 18.2 |
Each step is the change from switching that factor on, in this order, so the steps add up to the projection. The matchup adds nothing with a line: the model's backtest found the line already prices the defense.
- Hurts: CLE is implied for 18.8 points, 25th-highest of 28 teams with a line this week.
- Context: NYJ ranks 21st of 32 defenses in fantasy points allowed to QBs, where 1st allows the most (context, not in the projection).
- Context: kickoff-hour forecast S 8 mph, under the 15 mph wind line.
Season so far · through Week 4
- Half-PPR/g
- 16.7 half-PPR points a game over 4 games, 66.9 in all.
- PPR rank
- QB15 of 40 QBs with 2 or more games, by PPR points per game.
- Games
- 4 games with a stat line through Week 4.
- pass yds/g
- 214 passing yards a game this season, over 4 games.
PPR 66.9 (16.7/g) · Std 66.9 (16.7/g)
Game log · half-PPR
Half-PPR points by week, oldest first: Week 1 JAX 14.0, Week 2 TB 19.7, Week 3 CAR 20.3, Week 4 PIT 12.9. Bye in Week 11.
This week · CLE at NYJ
Week 5 projection
- Half‑PPR
- 18.2
- PPR
- 18.2
- Standard
- 18.2
Range 7.3–29.3
Floor to ceiling in half-PPR points: the 10th to 90th percentile of how far past weeks landed from a projection like this one. About 4 in 5 landed inside it.
Projected line: 31.0 att · 223 pass yds · 1.66 pass TD · 0.62 INT · 6.9 car · 29 rush yds · 0.24 rush TD
Show the math
- Volume
- 97% of CLE's pass attempts × 31.4 a game · 25% of CLE's carries × 26.6 a game
- 31.0 attempts · 6.9 carries
- Efficiency
- 7.2 yds/attempt
- 224 pass yds
- Scoring chances
- 4.80 TD per 100 attempts
- 1.90 TD
- Vegas
- CLE implied 18.8 vs 17.7 in his games (×1.06)
- +3% volume, +12% TD rate
- Market prior
- Not in preseason ADP — no prior
- Context (not in projection)
- NYJ allows 0.95× league QB points (rank 21 of 32)
| Opponent | at NYJCLE on the road |
|---|---|
| Kickoff | Sun 1:00 PM ET |
| Implied total | 18.8CLE · consensus line |
| Wind | No wind flagKickoff-hour forecast: S 8 mph |
| NYJ vs QB | Allows the 21st-most fantasy points to QBs0.95× the league average · context — not in the projection |
| Red zone | 36% of CLE's carries inside the 205 of 14, through Week 4 · 1 inside the 5 |
| Rest of season | QB16 of 39 · 16.6 PPGHalf-PPR points per game · 12 games left through Week 17 · bye in Week 11 |
Trade value 0 of 100
Redraft chart, Weeks 5–17, 12-team Half-PPR: at or below a replacement player, so about 0 in a trade.
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Built from stats through Week 4, consensus line as of Thu, Oct 8, 8:25 PM ET, Week 5 injury report. Game-day inactives are not in the model.
2026 season · the games so far
2026 so far
Through Week 4 · nflverse stats as of
- PPR pts / game
- 16.7
- QB rank
- QB15
- of 40 with 2+ games
- Games
- 4
- CLE
| Scoring | Total | Per game |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 66.9 | 16.7 |
| Half-PPR | 66.9 | 16.7 |
| PPR | 66.9 | 16.7 |
QB rank is by PPR points per game among QBs with 2 or more games.
Game log
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| Wk | Opp | PPR pts | Pass yds | Pass TD | INT | Carries | Rush yds | Rush TD | Snap % | Calculator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | PIT | 12.9 | 268 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 100% | Score this game |
| 3 | CAR | 20.3 | 144 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 45 | 0 | 99% | Score this game |
| 2 | TB | 19.7 | 238 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 0 | 100% | Score this game |
| 1 | JAX | 14.0 | 205 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 0 | 100% | Score this game |
PPR pts is nflverse's full-PPR total for the game. "Score this game" opens the fantasy point calculator with that exact line loaded, to re-score it in Standard, Half-PPR or your league's settings. A dash means nflverse has no figure for that game yet.
Usage trend
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| Per game | Last 3 (Wks 2–4) | Season | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snap share | 100% | 100% | 0 |
| Carries per game | 8.3 | 7.8 | +0.6 |
| PPR points per game | 17.6 | 16.7 | +0.9 |
Shares are team-relative and averaged per game.
Inside the 20
| Chances | His | Team share |
|---|---|---|
| Carries inside the 20 | 5 | 36% |
| Carries inside the 5 | 1 | 25% |
| Red-zone touchdowns | 0 | — |
Through Week 4, over 4 team games. Team share is his part of every target or carry his team had in that zone; a dash means it had none. Counted from nflverse play-by-play, the same way as the red zone board.
Sources: nflverse player stats, snap counts, play-by-play and the official injury report (CC-BY 4.0). Every figure in the game log, usage and red-zone blocks is a count, or an average of counts, from those files. A projection in the Week card above shows its own inputs and math. Opportunities are his pass attempts, carries and targets, divided by his team's games.
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